Here is a couple ATC's that I have created for a couple swaps for the Stampers Corner group in Yahoo groups. Great little group with lots of swaps. The first one is for the Winter Holiday Swap. I used Copic Markers and gel pen to add some sparkle. The second one I use alcohol inks on photo paper. I love this technique, no two ever looks the same. I added some dragon fly stickers and used foam squares for the middle square to give it some depth.

Winter Holiday

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18 Aug. 2013

I joined up with a new swap group in yahoo groups "Stampers Corner" and these are a couple ATC's I have made for the swaps. My camera phone does these pictures injustice to its true colors.

I have been playing with my copic markers lately and with watercolors. I still have a ways to go with mastering the art of using them.

Feb Swaps

I haven't done much lately with my blog, been busy with so much family tree projects, that I haven't done much scrappin. This past weekend I decided I need to get some of my swaps made. Here they are.

For a Fold Swap

 This fold card I did wasn't too easy for me, had to make a couple of them before I figure out what I was doing wrong ( I kept using the wrong size paper) HA

This is for my spring card swap

This Spring card, I used colorbox inks to give it a distress look to it.

St. Patty's Day Swap

This ATC St. Patty card. I used watercolors, I never used water colors before. I saw a video how the lady used watercolor on the paper and then zentangled around the the natural lines. I really like this technique a lot and will be using it more. I also sprayed some Perfect Pearls Mist to give a gold shimmer to it.

Birthday card with a bow on it Swap

St. Patty's Day Swap

This ATC is didn't use the gold perfect pearls spray, I love how the water color gave it that look.

Looks like I got nominated, a first for me. If you like what you see then go ahead and click on this icon below to cast your vote. :-) :-)

Been Away For awhile

Long Time No See...

Its been a long time since I have posted anything on here. Sorry gang. Just been caught up with doing other things that it has taken up so much of my time. I am hoping to update you on what I have been up to. We will start with today. I made a card today, using cricut craft room. I have struggle with doing this card because the craft room program has a lot of bugs in it, hopefully they will run them out soon. Until then I just make do.Its free so I shouldn’t complain too much eh? 

This year I am learning how to Zentangle. I love it. I have always been a lousy drawer. Heck, I can Barely draw stick people. I saw doing Zentangles awhile back ago and thought wow that gotta be hard to do…Well guess what, its not that hard. I you can draw stick people you can do Zentangles. Here is some of my creations:

 

Creation that I received

Here is a couple card that I received this past week from a couple swaps.( USA Card Making Swap Group and Card Crafters ).Great looking cards. Thanks Vaudene & Ruthann

Cards that I created this week

Here is a couple cards that I made this week. The creative bug is here and its having fun again.

This 2 cards I have made for the card making group USA Card Making Swap Group in Yahoo Groups 

 

Here is a couple birthdays cards I have made recently

I Made a Couple Valentines Cards

This is my first try at making these. They will go out in the mail to a couple people I am doing a card swap with.

 

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3 ATC’s Made Way Back When

Here is a couple ATC’s ( Art Trading Cards) I made way back when ( I can’t recall when) I have joined up with a couple ATCs groups in yahoo. I am still a newbie to the ATC world. They are pretty cool to make and I receive very nice ones from others around the world.

 

Here is a couple that I gotten from others.

 

Another New Year

I want to say I hope everyone has a wonderful New Year.

Christmas Cards I made 2010

Here are some Christmas cards I made in Dec. These are my first xmas cards. I had a blast making them.

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The Every Day Cook Book Encyclopedia Illustrated 1892 - eBay (item 270660850413 end time Nov-14-10 18:56:44 PST)

 

We ran across this really old cookbook. I  Hope when I am as old as this cookbook I am in this good of shape. I placed it up on Ebay. I hope someone takes it and give it a good home. Its very interesting reading esp. with the history part of it and how people think and how they made food during that time period, its sure long way from microwaving cooking that’s for sure. Cooking has come along ways

The Every Day Cook Book Encyclopedia Illustrated 1892 - eBay (item 270660850413 end time Nov-14-10 18:56:44 PST)

Card Swaps for Nov.

I joined up with a new yahoo group called USA Card Making Swap Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/USA_CardMakingSwapGroup/ I managed to make a couple ATC’s and Free Card. The Theme for the ATC’s is Nature. I had a couple stamps that I thought would reflect that. I used color markers to color them in and a sliver metallic pen and some glitter glue and some distress ink and some stamp up ink to give it a distressed look to them. The Free card I used ribbon, paper that I got on sale at Joann's ( one of my favorite places to shop at.) Sticky Bling Bling, The moon pic and saying came from “Expect a Miracle” mini pull tab card set.

 

Findings of the Day

As some you know I sell stuff on Ebay. I started doing this over 2 years ago and have been hooked ever since..Thanks to my best friend. Every week we go out hunting for stuff to sell on ebay, we go to yard sales, rummage sales at churches, estate sales, moving sales, thrift stores. We find pretty interesting stuff. This week my other half and another friend hit another great estate/ moving sale…my other half drugged home 100 plus cookbooks ( he sells them and I get the left overs, and would you believe he cant cook?) at a great price. The my friend stopped by and brought over 6 big U-Haul boxes full of crafting books, from the same place, we split them up. I kept a couple for myself of course ( I got hobbies in crafts too) like the soap making one ( I always wanted to know how to make them and make up some to give as gifts) A paper craft book ( you know me with my new found obsession card making) and stamp making, and how to draw letters in fancy ways ( write like chicken scratch).

If you are reading this and would like to share some of your great findings, I would love to hear it…I will try to keep posting ours and let you know how they turn out.

A Card Making Joke

I was present with a card last night from a dear friend. She made up a card, and written on the card her adventure in making this card. I can relate so much due to all the trials and error I have made in with learning how to make cards.  We were laughing so hard that we had tears rolling down our cheeks. I am going to share this with you..I hope it makes you laugh hard and have tears down your cheek as well.

 

Ok, so maybe not cool and crafty like yours, how about HANDWRITTEN? Let me tell you a little story: This is the fourth card…You didn’t tell me the envelopes wouldn’t fit! I kept cutting and cutting the card to fit the envelope of course, after I made them…Well, over there is what was left of card #3 (in the 2nd picture on the lower right hand side of the opened card is a little card glued on) So, then I realized again  after I started I was supposed to glue this paper to the cardstock. Oh well, see inserted piece of cardstock ( the 1st picture of the gold metallic paper with cut out stars) I also paid absolutely no attention to what type of glue to use. Thus the wrinkly effect on the card is from the leftover JB Weld we used on the car. I don’t have cool toys like you, However…I gave you 3 of my favorite Pokémon stickers (by the way we hate Pokémon). I gave up on the gluing of the bling bling, So I gave you 2 bling bling hair pins Oh & I would've given you the other cut out stars but the %^&^* stars thingy's popped off the card and landed glued side down on my floor  to forever stay. Remember I used car glue. So I sewed the ones on that were left Oh yea…The flower on the envelope  The first 3 times I sewed the envelope shut. Progress not perfection. This was a little story to make you laugh so yuck it up ..No more cards..I am outta of supplies.

I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

Here is a card I made this week for a very good friend for your birthday. Its one of my favorite creations.

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Here is a couple of Xmas cards I have been working on. They are my first for this year.

 

Here is a bag card I did, I like the idea that you can stick something into it like hot chocolate packets etc. Its wasn’t too hard to make, much easier than the tea bag ones I was trying to make larger to fit the coco packets in

My First Entry Using Live Writer

(me and Mr. Caponi)

I have no idea what I am doing or how to do this. This is my first blog for everyone to see. How am I doing so far?